Reading room

The reading room is open to anyone with a reader's ticket. Documents are issued only in the reading room; they are not lent.

Admission

Apply for a reader's ticket at the duty archivist's desk with your passport or residence card.
Bring a letter from your institution (university, ministry, newspaper) stating the subject of your research. Private researchers write a personal statement on the form at the desk.
Foreign researchers also need the written permission of the Director. Allow two weeks.
The ticket is valid until 31 December of the year of issue.

Order files a day ahead, by 12:00, on the order slip, giving fond, inventory and file number from the inventories.
No more than five files a day and twenty a week.
Frequently used files of Fonds 85 and 86 are issued on microfilm only.
Files of fonds or parts of fonds subject to classification review are not issued, and slips for them are returned.

Pencils only. Pens, markers and correction fluid are not allowed. Pencils are issued at the desk.
Coats and bags are left in the cloakroom. Laptops are allowed; scanners and cameras are not.
Do not lean on documents, fold them, trace them or put anything on them. Turn pages by the corner.
Copies are made by our staff only: see copies and certificates.
Fill in the use sheet in every file: date, name, purpose. The use sheet is itself a document of the Archives.
The reading room is closed on the last Friday of each month (sanitary day).